“Both playful and sharp like teeth” – Dearly by Margaret Atwood
“Fun to be had” – The Cypher Files by Dimitris Chassapakis
“A different kind of book/s” – Xstabeth / The Towers The Fields The Transmitters by David Keenan
“As readable as Potter” – The Ickabog by JK Rowling
“A proper dissenter” – What I Do & Tales of Here and Then by James Kelman
“Dry and often very funny” – Unofficial Britain by Gareth E Rees
“A hefty dollop of fun” – Greensmith by Aliya Whiteley
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 – Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart #booker2020
“Too many of Krauss’ narrators feel like the same person” – To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss
“Give it a read and find out for yourself” – The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Intricately beautiful and abruptly brutal” – Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
“Dystopian, depressing and dispiriting” – The Last Good Man by Thomas McMullan
“Wild-as-you-like” – The Stubborn Light of Things by Melissa Harrison
“Oh dear oh dear oh dear” – White by Bret Easton Ellis
“Succeeds, albeit in a mordant manner” – Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
“Misjudged” – The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
“Like being the designated driver at the booziest Irish do you’ve ever attended” – Love by Roddy Doyle
“Incredibly entertaining” – The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
“Breathtakingly clever and elegant” – Why Visit America? by Matthew Baker
“By turns lyrical and direct” – Beneath the Trees of Eden by Tim Binding
‘Why did we have to wait so long for this?’ – Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (trans. George Szirtes)
“A pleasant work to read” – The Aeneid by Vergil (trans. Shadi Bartsch)
“Not for ghost story aficionados” – Reality & Other Stories by John Lanchester
“Full to the brim” – The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
“A little dry” – Naturalist (a graphic adaptation) by Edward O Wilson, Jim Ottaviani & CM Butler
On the Pile: October 2020
“Brutally realistic” – Redeployment by Phil Klay
“A genuine surprise” – My Second Home by Dave Haslam
